| EDUCATION |
| 2020 - present | Ph.D. in Entomology (Department of Zoology, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice) (Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre Czech Academy of Science) |
| 2014 - 2019 | B.S. in Biology (City College of New York) |
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| RESEARCH EXPERIENCE |
| 2020 - present | Ph. D. Student in Entomology (University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Advisor: RNDr. Martin Volf
Evolution of defenses and chemical diversity in willows (Salicaceae: Salix)
| | 2014 - 2019 | B.S/M.S. Graduate Student in Biology (Department of Biology, City College of New York)
Lohman Lab, Department of Biology, City College of New York
Advisor: Dr. David J. Lohman
Diversification and biogeography of pantropical grass-yellow butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae: Coliadinae)
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| PUBLICATIONS |
| Leong, J.V., Jorge, L.R., Seifert, C.L., & Volf, M. In preparation. Quantity and specialization matter: effects of quantitative and qualitative variation in willow chemistry on resource specialization on leaf-chewing insects. |
| Leong, J.V., Nunes, R., Wahlberg, N., Toussaint, E.F.A., Ngyuen, Y-L., Pierce, N.E., & Storer, C., & D.J. Lohman. In preparation. Diversification and biogeography of pantropical grass-yellow butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae: Coliadinae). |
| Cumming, R.T., Leong, J.V. & D.J. Lohman. 2017. Leaf insects from Luzon, Philippines, with descriptions of four new species, the new genus Pseudomicrophyllium, and redescription of Phyllium (Phyllium) geryon Gray, 1843, (Phasmida: Phylliidae). Zootaxa:4433(2): 389. [abstract] |
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